Paid Memberships Pro - Affiliates 0.6.1

How it Works
The Lightweight Affiliate Tracking Add On for Paid Memberships Pro creates unique affiliate codes assigned to your affiliate users. When someone visits your site using an affiliate URL (a code is passed to a page as a parameter), the affiliate’s cookie is set for the specified number of days. If a cookie containing an affiliate referral code is present after checkout, the order is logged in the affiliate’s account.

Affiliates can see a report of their activity by creating a page with the shortcode (optional). The admin can view a report of affiliate activity in the admin under Memberships > Affiliates as well as add and manage affiliate codes.

To Set Up a New Affiliate

1. Navigate to Memberships > Affiliates in your WordPress admin.
2. Click “Add a New Affiliate”.
3. This form contains the following fields/settings:
   • ID: (this will be generated when you save.)
   • Code: This will be generated or you can override with your own custom Affiliate Code. This is the value added to the site URL to designate the affiliate link. (e.g. “&pa=CODE” or “?pa=CODE”).
   • Business/Contact Name: A custom contact name for the affiliate (not shown publicly).
   • Affiliate User: The username of a WordPress user in your site who should have access to affiliate reports.
   • Tracking Code: If you are tracking this affiliate through another system, you can add HTML/JS code here to run on the confirmation page after checkout. Variables: !!ORDER_ID!!, !!LEVEL_NAME!! (Optional)
   • Cookie Length: Length of time the cookie will remain valid for the affiliate tracking. Default is 30 days.
   • Enabled: Yes or No